Mas Alberto en Espana
Here I am again, posting in Sandra´s place...
Well, I´ve been walking all around Barcelona and I´ve gotta say...wear sneakers! The cooler-looking shoes I brought were turning my toes into raw meat. Sandra heads off to school every morning at 9:30 while I sleep until about 11:30. I guess it´s jetlag, but who knows? I´m trying to sleep at a regular hour (11pm to 1 am), buit I keep waking up in the middle of the night. Last night, I woke up and read Maxim and Wired for two hours. Maybe it was the "xocolate" I had late last night. Instead of hot chocolate, they literally serve chocolate that´s melted to just-drinkable. It´s a great treat, but very rich. Remember when Starbucks came out with that short-lived chocolate drink? That´s what it is. By the way, they don´t make mochas here...except at Starbucks!
I asked for a "xocolate con cafe" (chocalte and coffee) at a normal coffe shop and they looked at me like I was crazy.
Sandra has been constantly worried that I´m bored, but I´m just happy to relax. I´ve done pretty much all the "touristy stuff" I want to do, so I´m fine with just hanging out around town. But I think Sandra wants me to constantly seek out new stuff..that is, tourist-stuff. My big task today was sending a few postcards. I spent 40 minutes in line at a Spanish post office ("correos") just to do the deed. The one stamp machine dispenser insisted on exact change but actually refused to take exact change (and it wasn´t just me-real Spaniards were having the same trouble). So I took a number and waited 40 minutes. Wow. Things happen a little bit slowly here. We had to wait 3 hours for the travel agency to take their lunch break today!!
Okay...anyhow, I like it here. Everything´s cool and the people are friendly.
Later!
Albert
Well, I´ve been walking all around Barcelona and I´ve gotta say...wear sneakers! The cooler-looking shoes I brought were turning my toes into raw meat. Sandra heads off to school every morning at 9:30 while I sleep until about 11:30. I guess it´s jetlag, but who knows? I´m trying to sleep at a regular hour (11pm to 1 am), buit I keep waking up in the middle of the night. Last night, I woke up and read Maxim and Wired for two hours. Maybe it was the "xocolate" I had late last night. Instead of hot chocolate, they literally serve chocolate that´s melted to just-drinkable. It´s a great treat, but very rich. Remember when Starbucks came out with that short-lived chocolate drink? That´s what it is. By the way, they don´t make mochas here...except at Starbucks!
I asked for a "xocolate con cafe" (chocalte and coffee) at a normal coffe shop and they looked at me like I was crazy.
Sandra has been constantly worried that I´m bored, but I´m just happy to relax. I´ve done pretty much all the "touristy stuff" I want to do, so I´m fine with just hanging out around town. But I think Sandra wants me to constantly seek out new stuff..that is, tourist-stuff. My big task today was sending a few postcards. I spent 40 minutes in line at a Spanish post office ("correos") just to do the deed. The one stamp machine dispenser insisted on exact change but actually refused to take exact change (and it wasn´t just me-real Spaniards were having the same trouble). So I took a number and waited 40 minutes. Wow. Things happen a little bit slowly here. We had to wait 3 hours for the travel agency to take their lunch break today!!
Okay...anyhow, I like it here. Everything´s cool and the people are friendly.
Later!
Albert
posted by Albert at 10:26 AM
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